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Tomás Acuña Ruz

Environmental Engineer, Remote Sensing Specialist and Full Stack Developer

Education

Summer School: Advanced CROCO

University of Concepción & IRD France (LEGOS)

University of Concepción & IRD France (LEGOS)

2022 - 2022

  • Advances features of CROCO II

Summer School: GEOBIA – Operational Copernicus

University of Salzburg

University of Salzburg

2020 - 2020

  • GEOBIA – OBIA for the operational Copernicus service challenge

Diploma in Applied Geomatics

University of Chile

University of Chile

2015 - 2015

Renewable Natural Resources Engineering

University of Chile

University of Chile

2015 - 2013

  • Thesis: Spectral Signatures of Urban Vegetation in Santiago, Chile: Characterization and Separability of Species at Leaf Scale.

B.S. in Sciences of Natural Resource (minor C.S.)

University of Chile

University of Chile

2013 - 2010

Higher Secondary School in Exacts and Naturals Sciences

University of Chile

University of Chile

2010 - 2009

Positions

Principal researcher

ANID

BloomAlert

2022 - 2021

  • Implementation of biophysical methods for optical calibration and validation of satellite models for coastal risk in desalination, as a strategy for national water security (SUC210042)

Chief technology officer

Santiago, Chile

Bloom Alert

2021 - 2018

  • Main manager of technology staff to early warning system to reduce impacts over desalination process caused by extreme ocean variables. I lead the data science team and developers of the application software.

Publications and Writing

Fusion of monitoring strategies and insights on plastic leakage in waterways and beaches around Cambodia

J. Haz. Mat. (Submitted)

N/A

2023 - 2023

  • Smith, G., Acuña-Ruz, T. & Garaba, S. P.,

Defining Priority Areas for the Sustainable Development of the Desalination Industry in Chile: A GIS Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach

Sustainability

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • García-Bartolomei, E., Vásquez, V., Rebolledo, G., Vivallo, A., Tomás Acuña-Ruz, et al.

Hyperspectral longwave infrared reflectance spectra of naturally dried algae, anthropogenic plastics, sands and shells

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Garaba, S. P., Acuña-Ruz, T., and Mattar, C. B.

A country’s re-sponse to tackling plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems: TheChilean way

Aquat. Conserv.: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst.

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Urbina, M. A., Luna-Jorquera, G., Thiel, M., Acuña-Ruz, T.,Amenábar Cristi, M. A., Andrade, et al.

Effects of the surrounding landscape on waterbird populations in estuarine ecosystems of central Chile

Wetlands Ecology and Management

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • Acuña, M.P., Vukasovic, M.A., Hernandez, J., Acuña-Ruz, T., Estades, C

Anthropogenic marine debris over beaches: Spectral characterization for remote sensing applications

Remote Sensing of Environment

N/A

2018 - 2018

  • Acuña-Ruz, T., Mattar, C., Uribe, D. & Taylor R., Merrill, J., Martínez P., Voisin, L